Posted on 08/30/2004 9:14:35 AM PDT by presidio9
The turtlenecked gurus of the literary canon be damned, for it has come to pass that the first novel by Pamela Anderson has attained its rightful place on the bestseller lists.
"Can you believe it?" This is Anderson herself, the auteur and publicity-shy recluse speaking via cellular telephone from somewhere in the hills of Malibu. "So for the rest of my life, in addition to everything else they say about me, I can be called the New York Times best-selling author." Her "Star: A Novel" is No. 13, just behind Stephen King's latest.
(snip)
Pamela Anderson breaks new ground in other ways. For one, she didn't actually "write" her novel, in the traditional meaning of the term. Writing is so 20th century. What Anderson and publisher Simon & Schuster's Atria Books did was hire another writer to write the novel with her.
"I know how to write a column," Anderson says of her dots-and-dashes work for Jane magazine. "But a book? Like chapters, how many pages are in a chapter? How many chapters in a book? I needed some guidance."
(snip)
Anderson is asked about her literary inspiration. "I don't read novels," she says. She prefers books about dreams, past lives and elves.
When asked about Joan Collins as a role model for the model-actress turned novelist, Anderson demurs. Not. Really. Sure. Who. What? It doesn't matter. Quinn put a Collins reference in the book.
Anyway, Anderson is "very happy. I don't get good reviews for anything. I'm getting a real kick out of it." The Internet bookseller Amazon.com called her novel "funny, sexy, utterly compelling."
As Anderson sees it, "you can either read it on the beach or the toilet. It's not like it's a difficult read."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
And Jenna Jameson, the porn star is right up there with her.
...and that is saying it nicely too.
call me a cynic but for some reason I am guessing there is someone else doing the actual writing, just a guess of course.
"I know how to write a column," Anderson says of her dots-and-dashes work for Jane magazine. "But a book? Like chapters, how many pages are in a chapter? How many chapters in a book? I needed some guidance."
Well, my God, it has come to this. People are now buying a novel by Pam Anderson and she thinks she's a talented writer. Methinks we have finally reached the very shallow end of the culture pool. Ugh.
*spit take* BwahahaHAHAHAH!!!
"No inquiries for pictures please Pam Anderson is an STD-infected skank."
Sounds like someone's a little jealous...
http://www.hereinreality.com/striptease/pamflag.jpg
If you have a story and don't have time to write it yourself, have someone ghost-write it for you.
"Pamela Anderson breaks new ground in other ways. For one, she didn't actually "write" her novel, in the traditional meaning of the term. Writing is so 20th century. What Anderson and publisher Simon & Schuster's Atria Books did was hire another writer to write the novel with her."You didn't miss anything though, the article was just as vapid as the "novel" probably is.
I assume James Joyce has nothing to worry about?
some times it pays to actually read these articles :)
oops.
Ghost-writing is pretty 20th century, too.
Yeh, hepitatis C infected skanks really turn me on!
I'm jealous :o) but I'd rather be average then be infested with Tommy Lee cooties.
"Ghost-writing is pretty 20th century, too."
Just ask hillary and bill.
That would be about the only thing that Whammy Pammy and hillary have in common.
Unless bill...............nahhhh........
Hep-C is not an STD.
The "novel" is actually her life story. She has admitted that they wrote a "novel" to avoid lawsuits from the people in her past.
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